Capital inflows help economy to sustain high CAD: Rangarajan

30 Jan 2013 Evaluate

Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council Chairman C Rangarajan expressed the need of greater capital inflows to help the economy in dealing with the problem of high current account deficit (CAD). He said ‘it is the capital flow which has enabled us to sustain higher level of deficits. Let us not make a demon out of capital flows. Capital flows have been useful and have contributed to the strengthening of the economy.’ 

Further, Rangarajan pointed out that there is a need to distinguish between various types of capital inflows in order to utilize their potential as a detoxifying agent to tackle the menace of high CAD. While, the country's CAD touched a record high of 5.4 percent of GDP or $22.3 billion in the July-September quarter on account of higher outflows and decelerated growth in net export of services. Declining for the eighth month in row, exports contracted by 1.92 percent to $24.8 billion in December, widening the country's trade deficit to $17.6 billion for the month.

Meanwhile, the RBI also expressed concern over the rising CAD, which is expected to threaten macroeconomic stability and impact growth. The apex bank said 'large fiscal deficits will accentuate the CAD risk, further crowd out private investment and stunt growth impulses'. Moreover, to battle out high CAD, the government is trying to attract more foreign funds into the country and has also hiked import duty on gold to contain the high CAD.

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